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...upcoming major announcement. McFarlane and Crocker were briefed by South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha at a five-hour meeting in Vienna on Aug. 10; the Minister gave the same message to British and West German representatives. A few U.S. news organizations, including TIME, were given background briefings on the general nature and importance of the upcoming Durban address. Officials in Pretoria emphasized the likelihood that the government would have to pay a political price among its more conservative supporters for the impending announcement. As a National Party strategist put it, "This is going to cost...
...Payments allegedly made by the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for background reports on the political leanings of PBS guests...
...home to care for them. As Mom's dementia worsened, she often refused to take her pills. When Deborah insisted, Mom whined, "Deborah's being mean to me." No one in the family took it seriously except Deborah's elder sister. After years of staying in the background, she then began calling Mom every night, encouraging her to complain about Deborah. And like King Lear bouncing among his daughters in search of better treatment, Deborah's mom grew warmer toward her less favored child. "I'd always been the 'good' daughter," Deborah says. "This was her chance...
...outcry over the plants' vulnerability. Japanese nuclear watchdog groups are mostly also anti-gun. Armed guards will just "intimidate local residents and infringe on their rights," says Baku Nishio, co-director of Tokyo's Citizens' Nuclear Information Center. Japan does not legally require nuclear-plant workers to submit to background checks...
...hope to do strategy of some sort,” Wheeler says. “Hopefully analyze, maybe, economic conditions. Or military strategies. I’ll definitely use my background...